SHIT HAPPENS – CIA PENSIONERS CONFESS THEIR LIES
Insiders spit it out. The surprise attack on Iraq was staged. Reality was long adjusted to White House desires
By Rene Heilig
[This article published in: Neues Deutschland, 4/25/2006 is translated from the German on the World Wide Web,
http://www.nd-online.de/funkprint.asp?AID=89393&IDC=2&DB= Damn it. In the White House, unhappiness reigns since more and more secret agents become gossipy – after they quit their service.
CBS Sunday night. A former high-ranking CIA agent criticized President Bush for sending soldiers into battles that did not have to be fought. In March 2003, the president ordered the invasion of Iraq although he long knew that Saddam Hussein neither possessed weapons of mass destruction nor worked on an active nuclear program.
“The war against Iraq was resolved as a policy. The US government was only interested in secret service information that supported this policy,” he most important CIA representative in Europe at that time, Tyler Drumheller, admitted. For a year, he has been a pensioner. Nothing hinders him any more from speaking the truth that the world suspected for years. On the CBS program “60 Minutes”, Drumheller confirmed that Bush and his clique in the White House only accepted information that pleased them.
Information that did not fit the long resolved war strategy was consciously ignored, Drumheller lamented. He is really mad. Ultimately the CIA succeeded in gaining the former Iraqi foreign minister Naj Sabri as an informant. At first, there was rejoicing in the president’s environment. However interest in the top source suddenly faded when Sabri would only tell the truth and thus was absolutely unfit for constructing grounds for war. According to Drumheller, Sabri assured the US secret service “no active ABC-weapons programs exist in Iraq.” In the White House, this information that must have sounded very reassuring was pushed aside with displeasure. “When we asked what this had to do with secret service work, we were only told that regime change was not central and no longer secret service work,” the suddenly talkative CIA boss now related.
What Drumheller revealed was not new. In March, the “New York Times” disclosed that Bush knew months before the war’s beginning that no weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq. The newspaper appealed to a confidential conversation between the US president and Great Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair in January 2003 recorded by Blair’s former foreign policy advisor David Manning.
According to Manning’s recorded memo, Bush even wanted to provoke Saddam to confrontation with a trick. Bush proposed to his British colleague painting an American U2-spy plane in blue UN colors. If Saddam fired on the aircraft, he would violate the resolution imposed against Iraq by the UN and offer a reason for attack or aggression to the “democratic states” of the West.
This five-page note of the Blair advisor – like others – leaves no doubt that the Iraq war was resolved by Bush’s political gang in January 2003. In 2005, a British indiscretion caused a sensation among US alliance partners. Notes of the MI6-secret service head Richard Dearlove from July 2002 were published. These notes confirmed the resolution or criminal intent of the Bush administration. The head of the British foreign secret service was in the US at that time and witnessed, “Bush wanted to overthrow Saddam militarily and justified this with a combination of terrorism and ABC-weapons. The findings of the secret services will be adjusted to this policy.”